United States - 19th Century
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Last Stand: George Bird Grinnell, the Battle to Save the Buffalo, and the Birth of the New West
$18.99 Add to cartThe dramatic history of the extermination and resurrection of the American buffalo, by #1 bestselling author of The Revenant
Michael Punke’s The Last Stand tells the epic story of the American West th
- Author: Punke, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 09 2020
- ISBN10: 62970097
- Language: English
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The Captain, The Missionary, and the Bell: The Wreck of the Steamship Atlantic
$31.95 Add to cartThe Captain: Isaac “Kip” Dustan, a well-respected mariner whose adventures were frequently recounted in the mid-1800s New York newspapers…
The Missionary: Rev. Benjamin C.C. Parker of the Young Men’s
- Author: Larsson, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: May 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1646703774
- Language: English
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Murder at the Mission: A Frontier Killing, Its Legacy of Lies, and the Taking of the American West
$20.00 Add to cartFinalist for the 2022 Will Rogers Medallion Award
“Terrific.” -Timothy Egan, The New York Times
“A riveting investigation of both American myth-making and the real history that lies beneath.” –Claudio- Author: Harden, Blaine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: April 26 2022
- ISBN10: 0525561684
- Language: English
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Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide
$19.00 Add to cartThe New York Times-bestselling final book by the beloved, Pulitzer-Prize winning historian Tony Horwitz.
With Spying on the South, the best-selling author of Confederates in the Attic returns to the- Author: Horwitz, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: May 12 2020
- ISBN10: 1101980303
- Language: English
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Bad Boys of the Black Hills: …and Some Wild Women, Too
$16.95 Add to cartThe lively romp details some of the Wild West’s most engaging stories, specifically in the Black Hills and Deadwood, home to prostitutes and poets, desperados and dancehall girls, fortune tellers and … [more below]
- Series: Bedside Reader
- Author: Fifer, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 189
- Publish Date: April 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1560374357
- Language: English
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Sam Houston and the Alamo Avengers: The Texas Victory That Changed American History
$17.00 Add to cartThe New York Times bestseller now in paperback with a new epilogue.
In March 1836, the Mexican army led by General Santa Anna massacred more than two hundred Texians who had been trapped in the Alamo.- Author: Kilmeade, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 12 2020
- ISBN10: 0525540547
- Language: English
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The Richmond Theater Fire: Early America’s First Great Disaster
$34.95 Add to cartOn the day after Christmas in 1811, the state of Virginia lost its governor and almost one hundred citizens in a devastating nighttime fire that consumed a Richmond playhouse. During the second act of
- Author: Baker, Meredith Henne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 364
- Publish Date: April 01, 2022
- ISBN10: 0807177083
- Language: English
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Custer’s Fall: The Native American Side of the Story
$18.00 Add to cartThe true story of the Battle of Little Bighorn–told from the perspective of the native americans who fought in Custer’s Last Stand.
The day began with the killing of a ten-year-old Native American b- Author: Miller, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0452010950
- Language: English
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Cattle Kingdom: The Hidden History of the Cowboy West
$19.99 Read more“The best all-around study of the American cowboy ever written. Every page crackles with keen analysis and vivid prose about the Old West. A must-read!” — Douglas Brinkley, author of The Wilderness W… [more below]
- Author: Knowlton, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: June 05 2018
- ISBN10: 1328470253
- Language: English
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Brave Companions: Portraits in History
$27.99 Add to cartMaster historian David McCullough’s classic book about some of history’s most daring and accomplished figures from Alexander von Humboldt to Charles and Anne Lindbergh.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author D- Author: McCullough, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1668003546
- Language: English
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Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy
$24.95 Add to cartWhen Annette Gordon-Reed’s groundbreaking study was first published, rumors of Thomas Jefferson’s sexual involvement with his slave Sally Hemings had circulated for two centuries. Among all aspects of
- Author: Gordon-Reed, Annette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 29 1998
- ISBN10: 0813918332
- Language: English
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Paddy Whacked: The Untold Story of the Irish American Gangster
$19.99 Add to cartHere is the shocking true saga of the Irish American mob. In Paddy Whacked, bestselling author and organized crime expert T. J. English brings to life nearly two centuries of Irish American gangsteris
- Author: English, T. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: February 21 2006
- ISBN10: 0060590033
- Language: English
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Tough Trip Through Paradise 1878-1879
$9.95 Add to cartAndrew Garcia left a manuscript on his death in 1942. The author acquired the manuscript and edited it to tell Garcia’s story of the 1877 war between the US government and the Nez Perce people, the en… [more below]
- Author: Garcia, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 409
- Publish Date: January 01 1967
- ISBN10: 0893012505
- Language: English
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Surviving the Oregon Trail, 1852: As Told by Mary Ann and Willis Boatman and Augmented with Accounts by Other Overland Travelers
$24.95 Add to cartWith numbers swelled by Oregon-bound settlers as well as hordes of gold-seekers destined for California, the 1852 overland migration was the largest on record in a year taking a terrible toll in lives
- Author: Rau, Weldon Willis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 12 2001
- ISBN10: 0874222389
- Language: English
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Murder in a Mill Town: Sex, Faith, and the Crime That Captivated a Nation
$37.99 Add to cartA master storyteller presents a riveting drama of America’s first “crime of the century”–from murder investigation to a church sex scandal to celebrity trial–and its aftermath.
In December 1832 a fa- Author: Dorsey, Bruce
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 0197633099
- Language: English
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The Mountain Meadows Massacre
$24.95 Add to cartIn the Fall of 1857, some 120 California-bound emigrants were killed in lonely Mountain Meadows in southern Utah; only eighteen young children were spared. The men on the ground after the bloody deed
- Author: Brooks, Juanita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 15, 1991
- ISBN10: 0806123184
- Language: English
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Ghosts of Gold Mountain: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad
$19.99 Add to cart“Gripping . . . Chang has accomplished the seemingly impossible . . . He has written a remarkably rich, human, and compelling story of the railroad Chinese.” — Peter Cozzens, Wall Street Journal
WINN- Author: Chang, Gordon H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 05, 2020
- ISBN10: 0358331811
- Language: English
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Desperate Passage
$21.99 Add to cartIn late October 1846, the last wagon train of that year’s westward migration stopped overnight before resuming its arduous climb over the Sierra Nevada Mountains, unaware that a fearsome storm was gat… [more below]
- Author: Rarick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 08 2009
- ISBN10: 0195383311
- Language: English
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The Last Campaign: Sherman, Geronimo and the War for America
$20.00 Read more“William Tecumseh Sherman and Geronimo were keen strategists and bold soldiers, ruthless with their enemies. Over the course of the 1870s and 1880s these two war chiefs would confront each other in th… [more below]
- Author: Brands, H. W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 0593314522
- Language: English
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Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York’s Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist
$30.00 Read moreDiscover the true story of a self-taught surgeon and trailblazing figure in medical history–Madame Restsell, a revolutionary surgeon who fought for women’s rights and healthcare in Gilded Age New Yor… [more below]
- Author: Wright, Jennifer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0306826798
- Language: English
